comptona.bsky.social
Dad, husband, and principal engineer @ https://wayve.ai. Anyone can break one computer, but if you want to break thousands of computers at the same time you need a professional. Also enjoys reading everything that's not nailed down and pixel art.
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An edible, but you missed
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I don't know that it does? I'm just describing the atrophy of our ability to keep people from being oblivious narcissists. We switched from a guilt society to a shame society and forgot to build the shame
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We used to have to change our minds from time to time, sometimes against our will, to fit in with broader society. Now everyone has a pocket society where they'll never be challenged and nobody has to learn or grow. Since people need novelty and nobody can change, all that's left is escalation
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Update: turns out, a far simpler fix for this was making sure that LC_ALL was set appropriately (for Ubuntu, to "en_US.UTF-8"). That fixed the screen tearing in emacs without having to modify the files.
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It gets ten out of five stars for using motorcycles as melee weapons alone, separate and apart from everything else. (Plus the two final Jets Li use real martial arts styles that are suitable to their characters and counterpoint each other, there's a ton here)
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One of the best arguments against AI-written code is that it instantly becomes the most toxic kind of technical debt, since by definition nobody understands it very well. The productivity benefit of introducing it pales against the maintenance costs, but it'll take a few years for folks to see that
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It's a luxury good consumed almost exclusively by people well enough off that policy doesn't affect their lives in any substantial way
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If you tell it the first part of a story, it has to want to know how the story ends. Knowing that other people think about you, and having to think about their thoughts in turn, is the terrain that we invented stories to navigate. I think anything we might call conscious would have to want that map.
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It does drive me crazy that I can count the number of Democratic elected officials or candidates who want power to accomplish a specific, concrete change in the world on the fingers of one hand. Why can nobody say what they're going to use their power for if you give it to them?
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FWIW I tried all of them that I could find and eventually gave up on them. I subscribed to Readwise Reader, which I'm very happy with. I would have preferred a self-hosted solution but sometimes the available projects just aren't there yet
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I would look at it as, moron is a characteristic of the person, and that could be a distracting door to open. Instead I'd want to phrase it as "we shouldn't let people do jobs if they don't care that the work is done well". Anybody can care, and everybody can tell if somebody else cares
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We've come full circle
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I really enjoyed learning Ruby because it's one of the few prominent programming languages (that I'm aware of as an a provincial American) that was not primarily developed by an English speaker. It was cool to see the differences that arose from that
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One of my favorite examples of this, related to the movies, is that we call them "concession stands" because the movie theaters originally fought quite hard to resist people bringing food into the theater, and eventually had to concede and allow it
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Other people are THE FUCKING POINT.
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I think of it as, money is crystallized human attention, and since at its core it's just attention and its products (like skilled labor), literally everything purchaseable you could also get just by asking someone for it. You can get a long way towards your goals with no money and a compelling story
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Anyway. Part of the American Heresy is the hypocrisy that fucking EVERYONE notices, they are NOT subtle: the American Heresy takes "salvation by faith alone" to the furthest possible extreme. It does not matter if you follow Jesus's teachings, you said the magic words, so you are Saved.
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It's an imbalance in the humors, surely.
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Having a LLM or another person writing your papers feels like a victory but it is just your own defeat, you felled by your own contempt for your future and anyone who believes in you.